In the first ever night race in the Formula One history, Renault's Fernando Alonso took the chequered flag at the Singapore Grand Prix, after he started 15 place on the grid at the Marina Bay Area Street Circuit. The Spaniard driver who clinched his 20th win of career, attained his first factory since last year's Italian Grand Prix. The 27- year old driver scored his first win of the season with a winning time of 1 hour 57 minutes 16.304 seconds for the 61 laps of the 5.067 kilometres for a race distance of 309.087 kilometres.
Williams' Nico Rosberg of Germany came second (his best-ever grand prix finish) and was 2.95 seconds behind the winner, and Maclaren's Lewis Hamilton was third. Toyota driver Timo Glock was fourth with Toro Rosso's Sebastian Vettel coming fifth. BMW Sauber's Nick Heidfeld took the sixth position.
Lewis Hamilton extends his championship lead to 7 points after Felipe Massa of Ferrari finished down in 13th spot after a pit stop disaster.
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